A Documentary History of Slavery in Berbice 1796-1834 is a 2002 copyright work by Alvin O. Thompson.
A British slave colony from 1796-1834 Berbice, present day Guyana, is in northeastern South America. During 1796-1834 it was a colony, first of the Dutch and lastly the British.
Professor Alvin O. Thompson is a prolific writer of historical works about slavery, which was centered in the Caribbean and South America.
“My decision to produce this work [A Documentary History of Slavery in Berbice 1796-1834] was motivated primarily by the great shortage of published materials on Guyana, and especially on Berbice, during the slavery period. It was also motivated by my observations that large number of important documents on various aspects of slavery in the Anglophone Caribbean remain inaccessible to the average reader-the person who has no time or inclination to plough through published and unpublished contemporary records, often in obscure places. For instance, I discovered that the slave code of 1826, one of the most important documents on Berbice slavery, could not be located readily in Guyana.”1
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A Documentary History of Slavery in Berbice 1796-1834 has been followed by Economic Parasitism: European rule in West Africa 1880-1960 in 2006, and Confronting Slavery: Breaking through the Corridors of Silence. Thompson Business Service, Incorporated, Barbados, 2010.
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